The Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition (EBPC)is open to applicants worldwide and offers a tremendous opportunity to entrepreneurs and investors alike. With a rich history of success, the EBPC has awarded over $1,000,000 in cash prizes since 2010, and winners and finalists have gone on to raise more than $135 million in additional funding. Through its dynamic ecosystem, the EBPC celebrates meaningful innovations that address persistent and emerging problems in education.

Exigences:

The EBPC welcomes entrepreneurs with innovative ideas in education in areas of focus including:

Education urbaine

Relier la recherche à la pratique

Enseignement et apprentissage

Technologie de la maternelle à la 12

Étudiants en éducation spécialisée et à risque

Open & Collaborative Solutions: The Education Ecosystem

Apprentissage en ligne et à distance dans l'enseignement supérieur

Solutions d'éducation globales / sans frontières

Early Childhood Education

Apprentissage de l'effectif

Admissibilité

Any individual is eligible to enter the Competition by submitting an
Entry (defined below), except the following individuals are not
eligible:

Toute personne qui a moins de 18 ans;

Tout juge de la concurrence;

Anyone who previously was awarded a prize in the Venture Path of
this Competition. (However, if a previous winner wants to enter a new
educational entrepreneurship business plan, which the University
determines, in its sole opinion and determination, is unrelated to the
previous winning educational entrepreneurship business plan, then the
previous winning Applicant may do so, subject to his or her or its
compliance with all of the other eligibility requirements.);

Any Graduate School of Education faculty, lecturer, administrator,
staff, or other employee. (Note: Faculty, lecturers, administrators,
staff, employees, and students from the University of Pennsylvania and
its schools, centers and institutes, autre que la Graduate School of Education, peut participer au concours, à condition de
that he or she has first disclosed his or her product or service or
technology or concept or intellectual property to the University’s Penn
Center for Innovation or its successor (“Penn PCI”), using the
disclosure form required by Penn PCI, in order for Penn PCI to determine
whether the University has an ownership interest in such product or
service or technology or concept or intellectual property by virtue of
its intellectual property and employment policies.

Competition Structure

Rond 1 is open to applicants who currently generate
revenue, grants, customers, or investors, as well as those with
well-conceived plans to do so.

Rond 2 is open to Semi-Finalists from
Round 1 who have the exclusive opportunity to submit a refined
application enriched by this development process with Catalyst.

Finalistes selected from Round 2 will pitch their
venture at the EBPC Finals in Philadelphia for the chance win cash
prizes and share their idea with investors, entrepreneurs, and
educational thought-leaders.